 And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and...  The English Bulletin - Pàgina 251915Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Schoolmaster - 1836 - 926 pàgines
...too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities ; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes,...verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judginent, and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing with elegant maxims and... | |
 | James Simpson - 1836 - 308 pàgines
...master of the Edinburgh Institution for Languages, &c. App. No. II. LOCKE — GIBBON SMITH BYRON. 59 children, to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment." In another place, Milton says, " Though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that... | |
 | Central Society of Education - 1837 - 432 pàgines
...which habit, when once acquired, is not easily lost. Milton, in his Essay on Education, speaks of " the forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes,...observing with elegant maxims and copious invention." It may, at the same time, be well to consider whether the accurate and orderly description of objects... | |
 | 1837 - 646 pàgines
...reflection — " Slow rises worth by poverty deprcss'd." Milton has told us that Poetry is the art of expert judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observation, with elegant maxims and copious inventions. His practice corresponded with his theory.... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1838 - 400 pàgines
...applies to Milton with a deeper emphasis. He has himself told us, that Poetry is the art of expert judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observation, with elegant maxims and copious inventions. His practice corresponded with his theory.... | |
 | 1839 - 598 pàgines
...too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities ; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes,...observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking... | |
 | 1839 - 636 pàgines
...too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities ; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes,...observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pàgines
...too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities ; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes,...verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment.t and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pàgines
...too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities ; partly in a preposterous exaction, ati ob*erving, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor strii/lings,... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 pàgines
...too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities ; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes,...observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking... | |
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